Another "meta" kind of murder mystery by Horowitz, in which he places his real self, the man who has many screenwriting credits and has written scads of youth novels and a handful of novels geared to adults. The beginning is a continuation of his book The Word is Murder, but there's no need to have read that book to enjoy this one. In this story, he continues his association with Daniel Hawthorne, an ex-cop who works with the police department when there are particularly tough murder cases to solve. A wealthy divorce attorney, Richard Pryce, has been murdered after being threatened by Akira Anno, the spouse of someone he was representing. But there are several other candidates for suspicion, including his client, Adrian Lockwood and Pryce's own spouse Stephen. Pryce was also a party to a caving accident in which a college friend died many years ago, which puts another line of investigation into the spotlight.Hawthorne wants Horowitz to merely write about the case and not to interject his own questions when a witness is interrogated. Horowitz can't help but throw in a few questions, and sometimes his questions give info to the witnesses that cause problems down the road. Horowitz has his flaws, which are both annoying and endearing. Hawthorne remains somewhat of an enigma.
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